Mental Treatment Act, 1945

Direction to give copy of order and medical certificate to temporary patient.

228.—The Minister may, upon the request in writing of a person who is detained as a temporary patient in an approved institution and who considers himself to be unjustly detained, by order direct the person in charge of the institution to give to the person detained, free of charge, a copy of the order and of the medical certificate consequent upon which he is detained, and the person in charge of the institution shall comply with such direction.